Amazon to inject $ 10 billion into Rural North Carolina for the Data Center and the IA campus
Amazon plans to invest $ 10 billion for the construction of a North Carolina campus to extend its cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructures, bringing a massive shot in the arm in a region where many textile and clothing works have dried there is a generation.
Amazon said Wednesday that its investment in Richmond rural county is expected to create at least 500 jobs and support thousands of others thanks to suppliers of construction and data center, according to statements from the company and the office of Governor Josh Stein. Stein described one of the greatest investment in state history.
Data centers are already familiar to the North Carolina landscape, including those operated by Apple. This project could transform the county of Richmond, which is on the border of Southern Carolina and has around 42,000 inhabitants.
The Richmond County site should employ engineers, network and security specialists and other technical roles, said the company. Amazon said that it would provide support to universities, community colleges and other workforce training programs to help people grasp data and wide-band expansion fields.
“This investment will position the North Carolina as a center for advanced technology, will create hundreds of highly skilled jobs and will stimulate significant economic growth,” said David Zapolsky in the Amazon World Affairs. “We are delighted to associate ourselves with local partnerships and managers, local suppliers and educational establishments to maintain the next generation of talents.”
The County Commissioners of Richmond approved on Tuesday an incentive package for Amazon. The company could receive annual cash grants for 20 years equal to parties of real estate property tax and land tax for vehicles and equipment in each contingent data center on job creation and monetary investment thresholds, Richmond Observes reported.
“This project will really transform our community in a way that we cannot imagine,” said Richmond Director Bryan Land at the meeting of commissioners on Tuesday. “The announcement comes from large -scale improvements to our water system, the Rockingham wastewater system and our fiber optic infrastructure throughout our county – which will all have a cost for our taxpayers from the County of Richmond de Zero.”
Stein’s office, which qualified the “innovation campus” project, said that data centers will contain servers, storage records, networking equipment and other technologies.
“Artificial intelligence changes the way we work and innovate, and I am happy that North Carolina remains at the forefront of everything that is ahead while we continue to attract the best technological companies like Amazon,” said Stein. The governor attended a public announcement on investment Wednesday during an investment in Hamlet.
The company said it had invested $ 12 billion in North Carolina since 2010 and has supported 24,000 full -time and part -time jobs.
This story was initially presented on Fortune.com
